Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-07-22
WHOLE NUMBER 1883.
General News Items.

smoke IN New ork city Saturday.
The Government will send a Uni
ted States vessel as convoy to the
d Queen Of the Hawaiian Islands, or
e her return home.
One hundred and twenty-five deaths
0 occurred Monday, in Chicago, mostly
from sunstroke. The temperat ure
ranged from 50 to 80 deg. The NOR
tality in all the northern cities the
past few days has been fearful
t A cyclone at Waufca, Wisconsin
last Saturday, wrecked the opera
3 house, unroofed two hotels, blew down
church steeple, and caused other
: heavy losses. The farmers in that Vi
cinity likewise suffered considerable
loss.
The American schooner CHALLENGE,
OF Seattle, and the British steam
schcon Annie Brent, of Victoria,
} have been seized by the U. S. revenue
cutter Rush, for sealing within the
prescribed limits of the northern bor-
ders.
| The druggists of Portland, Maine,
having been prohibited from selling
soda and cigars on Sunday, have by
way of retaliation, closed their stores
and declined to put up prescriptions
on that day. 1t is hoped by this
means to have the order rescinded.
A terrible wind storm passed over
New York city Sunday, tearing up
trees by the roots in Central Park and
at the Battery. The storm did con-
siderable damage likewise at Jensey
City. Five persons were drowned by
the capsizing of yacht near Staten
Island.
The Treasury Department has mott
fled the customs officers on the north
ern boundary to refuse all certificates
embraced in the numbers stolen from
the Port Townsend custom-house pre-
sented by Cinnamon entering the
United States by way of the Canadian
Pacific.
A band of religious fanatics, July
10th, attempted the assassination OF
Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia,
because she refused to modify the
terms of her marriage settlement
which accords her the privilege of re-
naming Lutheran, and to Join the
Greek church.
Another Mexican outrage is reported
on an American citizen. D. Brecken-
ridge was arrested on a charge of MUIR
der and subjected to gross indignities
and loss, being afterwards acquitted.
He now applies, through the American
consul, for restoration of his property
and indemnity.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Com
pany has formally notified the Cana
dian Pacific Railway of its intention
to terminate the contract for a low
freight tariff to enable that road to
compete with the American lines fer
through freight. The average figures
under the contract were SO 40 per ton.
The officials of the Canadian Pacific
company have contracted to carry
Australian wool from Victoria, B. c.,
to Boston and other points on the
Atlantic Coast. This wool was until
this season brought in vessels to
American ports on the Pacific and
shipped over the Northern Pacific rail-
road.
The acting secretary, Muldrow, cf
the Interior Department, Monday
rendered q decision, according to
married women the right to enter as
purchaser of timber and stone lands,
under the law governing the sale OF
such lands in the States of Mississippi,
Louisiana, California, Nevada, Oregon
and Washington Territory.
Col. Burgess, of Boston, the builder
of the two famous yachts Puritan and
Mayfower, has launched his third
craft, the Volunteer, and great things
are expected of her She measures six
feet more over all than the Mayfower,
she is only two inches longer on the
water line and has four inches less
beam, one foot more draft and twenty
two tons more ballast.
| Advices to the Associated Press
show the following extreme tempera-
ture at points named last Saturday,
nearly all reporting it to be the hottest
day OF the year and some of them hot
test for many years: New York, 80;
Washington, 9S4; Philadelphia, 9S;
Baltimore, 100; Wilmington, Del,
100; Newcastle, 100; Staunton, Va,
100; Richmond, Va, 1O4; Winches-
ter, Pa, 1O2; Troy, N. V, 95.
The barge Lizzie Wallace arrived at
Richmond, Va, Friday, with 200 tons
of old iron consigned to the Old Do
minion iron and nail works. This
iron is the remains of the confederate
gunboat, Virginia, formerly the Uni
ted States steamship Merrimrc. 1t
was sold recently as scrap-iron to
northern merchants who subsequently
sold it to the Old Dominion iron
works. 1t will be converted into